Scaling Intergenerational Connection

不同寻常的是，一家慈善机构和社会企业将几代人聚集在一起。我们的愿景是帮助创建互联、包容和年龄友好的社区。在过去的5年里，我们制定了代际计划，将小学儿童和他们在养老院和当地社区的年长邻居聚集在一起。我们正在申请赠款资金，通过支持更多的人实施代际计划来扩大我们的社会影响，这些计划可以改善老年人的福祉和与他们社区的联系，作为支持晚年社会联系这一挑战主题的一部分。我们的计划是由所有年龄段的参与者通过迭代、共同设计过程形成的，并已将1800多名各个年龄段的人联系在一起。我们已经通过代际评估方面的领先专家阿里·萨默斯博士的独立评估，验证了它对老年人和儿童产生的积极社会结果。我们相信，更多的人可能会从与不同一代的联系中受益。为了扩大我们的影响，我们开发了一种模式，在这种模式下，不同寻常支持其他组织在当地合作，提供他们自己的代际活动，以适应他们的社区。重要的是，我们的创新平台和支持模式将通过减少管理项目所涉及的时间和成本并最大化合作伙伴为项目带来的价值，使这些计划在财务上更具可持续性。InCommon将为当地合作伙伴开发一个创新的在线会员平台，以方便当地合作伙伴获取资源和管理项目管理，以及为项目启动和运行提供个性化支持。这一模式将支持小学、房屋协会、养老院和其他社区组织之间灵活的伙伴关系，使每个项目都植根于当地社区。作为该项目的一部分，我们将：*支持一批当地合作伙伴在20个地点开展跨代方案，作为学习过程的一部分。在每个地点，一所小学将与住在养老院的一群老年人联系起来。总共有125多名老年人和200多名儿童将在一起学习。*进一步发展我们的在线平台，以管理举办计划的后勤工作，从安排适当的日期到提供适当的活动，同时确保有效的保护和监测社会影响。*评估该模式的成功，并重复使用它，为未来扩大规模以支持更多本地项目做准备。

InCommon is a charity and social enterprise bringing generations together. Our vision is to help create connected, inclusive and age-friendly communities. Over the past 5 years we have developed our intergenerational programme bringing primary school children together with their older neighbours in retirement homes and local communities.We are applying for grant funding to scale our social impact by supporting more people to run intergenerational programmes that can improve older people's wellbeing and connection to their communities as part of the challenge theme of supporting social connection in later life. Our programme has been shaped by participants of all ages through an iterative, co-design process and has connected over 1800 people of all ages. We have validated the positive social outcomes it has for older people and children through an independent evaluation from Dr Ali Somers, a leading expert in intergenerational evaluation.We believe that there is potential for many more people to benefit from connecting with a different generation. To scale our impact we have developed a model in which InCommon supports other organisations to partner locally to deliver their own intergenerational activities, adapted to their community. Importantly, our innovative platform and support model will make these programmes more financially sustainable, by reducing the time and costs involved in managing projects and maximising the value that partners bring to the project.InCommon will develop an innovative online membership platform for local partners to access resources and manage the administration of the project simply, alongside personalised support to get projects up and running. This model will support flexible partnerships between primary schools, housing associations, care homes and other community organisations so that each project is rooted in its local community.As part of this project we will:* Support a cohort of local partners to run intergenerational programmes in 20 locations as part of a learning process. In each location, a primary school will connect with a group of older people living in retirement housing. In total, 125+ older people and 200+ children will connect and learn together.* Further develop our online platform to manage the logistics of running programmes, from arranging suitable dates to providing appropriate activities, whilst ensuring effective safeguarding and monitoring social impact.* Evaluate the success of the model and iterate it in preparation for scaling to support more local projects in the future.